About these spring coloring pages
Spring coloring pages celebrate everything that wakes up after winter: tulips and daffodils pushing through the soil, butterflies on a flower, birds building nests, ducklings in a puddle, rainbows after an April shower and kids in rain boots with umbrellas. Our free printable spring pages include single flowers and bugs with thick lines for toddlers, garden and farm scenes for school-age kids and detailed flower mandalas for teens and adults.
Print them on US Letter or A4 paper at home or in the classroom, or color them online. Spring pages brighten a window while it is still gray outside, and they make good companions to a real nature walk: look for a robin, a bud or a caterpillar, then color the same thing at home. Teachers use them from March to May for science lessons, garden projects and the weeks before the spring break.
Learn about spring while you color
Spring is the season of life cycles, and many spring pages show one step of a change children can watch for real. A caterpillar turns into a chrysalis and then a butterfly; frog eggs become tadpoles and then frogs; a seed grows into a sprout and then a flower. Print the pages in order, color them, and line them up to tell the story.
Teachers use spring pages to start a science lesson: color a flower and label its parts (petals, stem, leaves, roots), or color a bird's nest and count the eggs. For younger children, a page with a big rainbow is a gentle way to learn the order of the colors.
Planting seeds in a cup on the windowsill? Color a flower page the same day, then compare the drawing with the real plant each week.
Spring pictures kids love
Look for these on our spring pages, and see how many you can find outside.
Turn it into a game: print a few pages, take them on a walk around the block or to the park, and tick off each thing you spot, a robin, a bee on a flower, a puddle, a tree in blossom. Back home, color only the things you actually saw. Over a few weeks the pages fill up as the season moves along, and children notice how the first bare branches turn into full green trees. Write the date on each page to keep a simple spring diary.
- Tulips, daffodils and cherry blossoms: some of the first flowers of the year
- Butterflies and bees: busy visiting flowers for nectar
- Birds and nests: many birds return from warmer places and lay their eggs in spring
- Baby animals: lambs, chicks, ducklings and bunnies
- Rain, puddles and rainbows: April showers help the flowers grow
- Kites: windy spring days are perfect for flying them
Spring facts to share while you color
- In the Northern Hemisphere, spring begins with the spring equinox around March 20.
- On the equinox, day and night are about the same length all over the world.
- In the Southern Hemisphere, in places like Australia, Argentina and South Africa, spring starts in September.
- A butterfly goes through four stages: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult butterfly.
- In Japan, people gather under blooming cherry trees in spring for picnics called hanami.
- A frog starts life as an egg, hatches into a tadpole that breathes with gills, then grows legs and loses its tail.
- The Netherlands is famous for its spring tulip fields, which turn the countryside into stripes of color.
- A rainbow appears when sunlight shines through raindrops, and its colors are always in the same order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Which spring page for which age
- Toddlers (2–3)
- One big flower, a ladybug or a sun with thick lines. Let them pick a different crayon for each petal.
- Preschool (3–5)
- Rainbows to color in order, butterflies with matching wings, ducklings and simple gardens with a few flowers to count.
- Kids (5–10)
- Life-cycle pages, birds in nests, kids flying kites and garden scenes with bugs hidden among the leaves. They can label the parts of a flower or the stages of a butterfly on the page.
- Teens and adults
- Detailed floral mandalas, cherry blossom branches and botanical pages with fine lines, lovely with colored pencils or watercolor pencils.
Coloring tips and color ideas
- Use fresh spring colors: light green, sky blue, sunny yellow, pink and lavender.
- Color both wings of a butterfly with the same pattern, like a mirror.
- Make petals look soft by coloring them darker near the center and lighter at the tips.
- Use two or three greens for grass and leaves so the page does not look flat.
- Add a few pale blue lines for falling rain, or a soft yellow glow around the sun.
- Watercolor pencils and a damp brush make spring skies and flowers look like real paintings.
Ideas for home, school and parties
- Window flowers: cut out colored flowers and tape them to a window facing the street, a cheerful sight for neighbors while the trees are still bare.
- Life-cycle chart: color the stages of a butterfly or a frog and glue them in a circle.
- Nature walk: color the bird or flower you spotted outside and write the date on the page.
- Classroom bulletin board: a "spring garden" made of every student's colored flower, with "Hello spring" in big bubble letters from the free quote maker across the top.
- A family spring coloring book: upload photos from the park, the garden or a picnic and Coloriki turns them into a book to color together.
How to print spring coloring pages
- Open the page you like and press Print it. A PDF opens, sized for US Letter; the A4 PDF is next to it.
- In the print window choose "Fit to page" or 100% scale, and plain white paper. Thicker paper (100 to 120 gsm) is better for markers and paint.
- Print a few copies: kids like to try different colors on the same picture.
- Prefer screens? Press Color it online and color with a tap on a phone, tablet or computer.